EDUARDUS S. KEOGH, Cong. Orat., 

CENSOR DEPUTATUS 

Imprimatur. 

HENRICUS EDUARDUS. 

CARD. ARCHIEP. WESTMONAST. 

DU 18 Dec., 1888. 

Imprimatur. 

JOHN CARD. McCLOSKEY, 

ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK. 

Feb. 14, 1864. 

PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

This edition of a most important contribution to Catholic literature is presented to American readers by special arrangement with the publishers of the English edition, and is printed from duplicates of the English stereotype plates. Many editors of the English edition have, however, been corrected by competent hands, and such alterations have been made as to fit the work more satisfactorily to American needs. Among other things, the present condition of the religious orders and societies in the United States is concisely described under the respective heads, and proper notice is taken of such peculiarities in discipline and ritual as prevail here. A second supplement has been added, giving brief accounts of some of the leading religious communities, especially those flourishing in the United States, omitted from the main body of the work. No pains, in fact, have been spared to make the American edition of the Catholic Dictionary accurate and complete in all respects.

New York, February, 1884.